OPINION

In an Irish memorial, I see echoes of Palestine

Oped, Andy Young, Published on 03/10/2025

» The figures by the River Liffey in Dublin are more clothes than flesh. The Famine Memorial, created by Rowan Gillespie, holds in bronze a moment of suffering, the settling in of the Great Hunger, which would cut Ireland's population by more than a quarter, the gone either dead or emigrated.